Not P but Lovecraft

[Mark Thibodeau]

The actual quote from the story is as follows:

"Disliking the dinginess of the single restaurant I had seen, I bought a
fair supply of cheese crackers and ginger wafers to serve as a lunch later
on."

So "cheese crackers" and NOT "cheese AND crackers".

yer old pal Jerky

On Mon, Dec 5, 2022 at 6:27 PM Robert Mahnke <rpmahnke at gmail.com> wrote:

> FWIW, it seems wrong to me to assume that Lovecraft had a branded product
> in mind, or that -- if he did -- it was a brand that still survives. Maybe
> he was thinking about crackers with cheese, or with cheese paste, a la this
> recipe found Tom Scocca's email newsletter:
>
> [image: Indignity Vol. 2, No. 96 Purloined Puma.jpeg]
>
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 3:32 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” the narrator describes
> taking a
> > supply of “cheese crackers” with him for lunch. A certain brand of cheese
> > cracker was invented in 1921 — which means he quite probably took some
> > Cheez-Its to Innsmouth.
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